I extended the capabilities of my microsub feed reader with the option to save web articles directly from the reader to my Obsidian notes in markdown format.
I’ve been meaning to write this post for some time, but held off to wait for The Lovely Estate to release a patch that would fix the walking issue. It’s fixed. This game is tremendous and you must give it a chance!
Amidst all this talk about the future of Twitter pending a still-theoretical Elon Musk acquisition, some people have been asking whether there’s a viable alternative they could move to immediately.Inevitably, some of the obvious decentralized projects have been suggested. The …
Last week the 3D printing platform Printables removed an unknown number of models from their platform. This action was apparently in response to a letter Printables received from Honda claiming that user models infringed on various rights. Based on the discussion of the action …
This weekend, I spent a lot of time jumping from site to site through the IndieWeb webring—check my homepage footer to start browsing.I loved stumbling upon these little corners of the internet that people would customize to fit their own personality and preferences. A few of …
I’ve written many times in the past about how I think people should keep their website archives online. In fact I’ve talked about it to the point of obnoxiousness, and then far beyond that. About how old stuff can suddenly become found and loved, about the history of the web …
Rewriting software from scratch is usually a terrible idea. But I’m thinking about it.The Known open source codebase is now 9 years old; a PHP kludge that I wrote while my mother was recovering from a double lung transplant still powers my site and many others. It became the …
Got a chance to read https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/3-6-2022-a-self-authenticating-social-protocol. It starts off pretty good, speaking on popular open protocols and approaches. It then brings up scale and Twitter's experience, which is really more of a concern for commercial …
I have repeatedly expressed to peers working on #IndieWeb #SocialWeb #SocialMedia #FederatedSocialWeb that tech/plumbing-centric framing of #dweb "Decentralized Web" "Distributed Web" is heavily problematic. Beyond MastoGab, there is now something much worse (not linking). I’ll …
